> There are no repercussions for upvoting or submitting questionable content at the moment. This is a huge factor, IMHO - a much higher signal/noise ratio in t

> There are no repercussions for upvoting or submitting questionable content at the moment. This is a huge factor, IMHO - a much higher signal/noise ratio in the articles on the front page would probably set up positive feedback, helping with other issues. Unfortunately, there are positive incentives for being the first to submit anything that could potentially be voted up, drowning out interesting content.